On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:15 +0200, Loup Vaillant wrote:
> 2007/5/11, dmitry grebeniuk <gds-mlsts@moldavcable.com>:
> I tend to agree when one says custom operators are evil. However, when
> the default syntax uses operators, the custom ones are a net win : a
> wise programmer will use their semantic load carefully (big nums, for
> example), and sparsely, so the code is more readable.
In Ocaml, there's no overloading: custom operators have
big advantages for things like int32, int64, bignums, matrices etc,
where other languages can simply use overloading.
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